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To make it simple to build multi-language apps.
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.2.0/cor...

Should be an "app-setting" for this; Multi-language? yes/no, language resource folder for storage of language files. An en_US should be there from the start, and developer only would need to make a copy to other languages when app complete to translate it.

Please look into the possibility to implement this/or similar, as I am currently building an app that need multilanguage support.

Thanks!

Hi, not sure if it's planned, but I'll forward your request to Max Katz, he'll get back to this post and update.

Okei

I propose (as I said above) an implementation in app-settings:

• Globalization Yes/No

  if yes, run on device ready = globalization check on device, and load appropriate language resource from /locale folder. Default en_us_locale with a couple strings inside, and a simple setting on components to use and define locale string.

  Would make the app builder awesomer

As this is part of PhoneGap's API, and PhoneGap is included in your app, you can use it today. Did you have something else in mind?

Hi Max!
Sure, I get that, but my suggestion is to implement this in the App builder = app_settings (eg: No need for custom implementation).

This would make the app builder even more usable for many app developers

As for me, I am not sure how to do this custom in the app builder, so I am kinda stuck. Tutorial please, or even better, listen to your customer and take a look into implementing such a setting in the app builder

Thanks!
-Tom

What settings would you like to see? For example, from PhoneGap docs, if you want to check what language the browser is set to, you would run this code:

navigator.globalization.getPreferredLanguage(
function (language) {alert('language: ' + language.value + '\n');},
function () {alert('Error getting language\n');}
);

Yes. This will reallly be a gigant Leap for Appery. Because the world is becoming more and more globalized. And serious companies needs to developer for several different coutries and languages. In i.e. Delphi xe4 you have a TLang component. Here you can add other languages when needed. The component iitself can scan for strings in the project and then the developer can translate. You can change languages at run time but being able to do it before build should be god enough for the majority I think.

Hi,

You can use in your app the text enclosed in curly braces and mark all items with a special class, for example _:
code{label caption}/code
Then when start or at any other time, your application can query such items and change their text to the desired language. This may work in such a way that for English, for example, the substitution is in removing the braces. For other languages​​, it will be to find matching pairs of text.

The important point here is to think in advance about the numerals. It is the most difficult part in the internationalization. The implementation of numerals is a topic for another discussion.

Hi. Do you have an example on how to implement this to my app (on app start/load)?
english (language 1), norwegian (language 2).

If device language example, German = Use English language (default)

We don't have an example, but there is a jQuery plug-in that might help you with localization: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/90...

We are planning to add some builder features to help with this.